I don't know if it's a bug or not but since the update from 3.9_p1-r4 version mid Mars, ntpd was suddenly very verbose in /var/log/messages i.e. Apr 19 10:33:26 ntpd[18871]: ntp engine ready Apr 19 10:33:45 ntpd[18871]: peer 108.59.14.130 now valid Apr 19 10:33:45 ntpd[18871]: peer 24.25.4.103 now valid Apr 19 10:33:45 ntpd[18871]: peer 204.2.134.162 now valid Apr 19 10:33:46 ntpd[18871]: peer 216.93.242.12 now valid Apr 19 10:33:46 ntpd[18871]: peer 208.87.104.40 now valid Apr 19 10:33:46 ntpd[18871]: peer 4.53.160.75 now valid Apr 19 10:33:48 ntpd[18871]: peer 50.23.135.154 now valid Apr 19 10:33:48 ntpd[18871]: peer 65.182.224.60 now valid Apr 19 10:33:49 ntpd[18871]: peer 128.10.19.24 now valid Apr 19 10:33:49 ntpd[18871]: peer 74.122.204.3 now valid Apr 19 10:33:50 ntpd[18871]: peer 108.61.73.244 now valid Apr 19 10:33:50 ntpd[18871]: peer 64.6.144.6 now valid Apr 19 10:33:51 ntpd[18871]: peer 204.2.134.164 now valid Apr 19 10:33:51 ntpd[18871]: peer 205.196.146.72 now valid Apr 19 10:33:51 ntpd[18871]: peer 24.124.0.251 now valid Apr 19 10:34:05 ntpd[18871]: peer 204.2.134.162 now invalid Apr 19 10:34:15 ntpd[18871]: peer 74.122.204.3 now invalid Apr 19 10:34:15 ntpd[18871]: peer 24.124.0.251 now invalid Apr 19 10:34:48 ntpd[18871]: peer 4.53.160.75 now invalid Apr 19 10:35:56 ntpd[18871]: peer 208.87.104.40 now invalid Apr 19 10:36:16 ntpd[18871]: clock is now synced Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: 10 out of 20 peers valid Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (74.122.204.3) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (129.174.93.11) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (4.53.160.75) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (24.124.0.251) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (204.2.134.162) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (2001:418:8405:4002::2) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (2620:17:4000::1:123) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fedf:9b84) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (2001:470:1:24f::1:3) Apr 19 10:38:26 ntpd[18871]: bad peer from pool 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org (208.87.104.40) Apr 19 10:40:59 ntpd[18871]: peer 65.182.224.60 now invalid Apr 19 10:43:04 ntpd[18871]: peer 64.6.144.6 now invalid I don't know if it's a bug or not but since the update from 3.9_p1-r4 version mid Mars, ntpd is suddenly very verbose in /var/log/messages i.e. I've never seen this before with others "p" version (I don't know why the naming has change (ebuild re-write?)) but maybe this comportment is "normal" or just a problem server-side on mirrors ? Btw, only based on this bug i think, most of wiki seems to be accorded on the fact that openntpd is obsolete and unmaintained upstream. I really like more this prog than net-misc/ntpd (very "light", just a client-side, no root socket listenning, etc) and It's sad if it's true but fedora has her own objective for capitalize on a prog or not and we have ours ;-) Maybe someone from our team could verify this ? ps: sorry form my english Reproducible: Always # emerge --info =net-misc/openntpd-20080406 Portage 2.1.11.55 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.10-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 6120720 total, 4345028 free KiB Swap: 524284 total, 524284 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=5 --load-average=5.0 --with-bdeps y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam foomaticdb gdbm gif glut gnutls gpm iconv ieee1394 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kde mmx modules mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdflib png policykit ppds python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline scanner session sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 tcpd tiff truetype udev udisk unicode upower usb vorbis vx4linux wma wmf xine xml xpm xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= net-misc/openntpd-20080406 was built with the following: USE="ssl (-selinux)"
Created attachment 346010 [details] /etc/conf.d/ntpd
Created attachment 346012 [details] /etc/ntpd.conf
Ouups I've forgot the link of the bug on fedora => https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430143#c4
(In reply to comment #3) > Ouups I've forgot the link of the bug on fedora => > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430143#c4 net-misc/openntpd-20080406 is debian's version of openntpd, which is basically 3.9 plus a lot of patches, which have accumulated over the years. ntpd has no option to tweak its verboseness. Have a look at <http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/> maybe you can add such an option yourself and reopen this bug with a patch later.
I guess I'm a little bit late on this bug, having only come across it after trying to figure out why a recent update broke my ntpd syslog configuration, but I think this is a bad idea: * If you don't want ntpd noise in /var/log/messages, update your syslog configuration to put it elsewhere * running with -d to log to stderr actually generates more noise than logging via syslog * Now there is no way to rotate the ntpd log without restarting ntpd 8-/, *and* this update provides no mechanism to rotate at all, resulting in an endlessly growing log file, as opposed to the previous version which was handled by the default logrotate config. I can't remember ever once having any issue with ntpd delaying the boot process, but if that is a problem for some people, resolving it without breaking syslog support and log rotation would seem to be a better way to go.